Travel & Exploration

Four centuries of going and looking — the great voyages and the small walks, the explorers, the exiles and the people who simply wanted to see somewhere else.

• The Land of Thor J. Ross Browne
• A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck
• Northern Travel Bayard Taylor
• A Wayfarer in China Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
• Following the Equator Mark Twain
• The Land of the Long Night Paul Du Chaillu
• The Cornwall Coast Arthur L. Salmon
• In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
• Crossing the Plains, Days of ’57 William Audley Maxwell
• A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain
• Due West; or, Round the World in Ten Months Maturin M. Ballou
• South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition Ernest Shackleton
• A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller
• From a Terrace in Prague B. Granville Baker
• The Trail of the Goldseekers Hamlin Garland
• Life at Puget Sound Caroline C. Leighton
• Mearing Stones Joseph Campbell
• Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard
• North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State Federal Writers’ Project
• American Notes Charles Dickens
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson
• Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana
• Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California Mary E. Anderson
• Captain Cook’s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World James Cook
• The Maine Woods Henry David Thoreau
• The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens
• Birdseye Views of Far Lands James T. Nichols
• Peeps at Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau
• A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden William A. Ross
• Peculiarities of American Cities Willard Glazier
• A Woman’s Journey through the Philippines Florence Kimball Russel
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece John Addington Symonds
• Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker
• Our Hawaii Charmian London
• Walks in Rome Augustus J. C. Hare
• Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain Annette M. B. Meakin
• Korea and Her Neighbors Isabella L. Bird
• Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official W. H. Sleeman
• Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life W. B. Lord and Thomas Baines
• Among Cannibals Carl Lumholtz
• The Alhambra Washington Irving
• My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir
• Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile Henry Stephens
• The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
• Twice Round the Clock George Augustus Sala
• Italian Villas and Their Gardens Edith Wharton
• Wanderings in Wessex Edric Holmes
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella L. Bird
• The City of the Saints Richard Francis Burton
• Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule Almira Stillwell Cole
• Wandering in Northern China Harry A. Franck
• What I Saw in America G. K. Chesterton
• Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena J. A. Zahm
• Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire John H. Dixon
• Italian Fantasies Israel Zangwill
• Vagabonding Down the Andes Harry A. Franck
• The Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León Pedro de Cieza de León
• To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise Ely Banister Soane
• The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Ludwig Salvator
• In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Mountains of California John Muir
• From Peking to Mandalay Reginald Fleming Johnston
• The Naples Riviera Herbert M. Vaughan
• The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins Various
• The New York and Albany Post Road C. G. Hine
• American Adventures Julian Street
• Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski
• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad
• How I Found Livingstone Henry M. Stanley
• Steep Trails John Muir
• Alexandria: A History and a Guide E. M. Forster
• Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie
• From Sea to Sea Rudyard Kipling
• An Australian in China George Ernest Morrison
• Italian Hours Henry James
• Abroad at Home Julian Street
• Highways and Byways in Sussex E. V. Lucas
• The North-West Amazons Thomas Whiffen
• The Lands of Silence Clements R. Markham
• The Lake of the Sky George Wharton James
• Across the Plains Robert Louis Stevenson
• Loitering in Pleasant Paths Marion Harland
• My Attainment of the Pole Frederick A. Cook
• Europe and Elsewhere Mark Twain
• One Irish Summer William Eleroy Curtis
• Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle
• Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens
• English Traits Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Travels in China John Barrow
• Working North from Patagonia Harry A. Franck
• Wild Wales George Borrow
• Greek Lands and Letters Anne C. E. Allinson & Francis G. Allinson
• The Kingdom of Georgia Oliver Wardrop
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Lafcadio Hearn
• The Land Beyond the Forest Emily Gerard
• Wanderings in Spain Théophile Gautier
• Old Calabria Norman Douglas
• Travels in Central Asia Ármin Vámbéry
• A Vagabond Journey Around the World Harry A. Franck
• An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon Robert Knox
• Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire James Croston
• Rambles and Studies in Greece J. P. Mahaffy
• The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell Andrew Battell
• Through East Anglia in a Motor Car James Edmund Vincent
• Tour in England, Ireland, and France Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
• White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O’Brien
• The American Egypt Channing Arnold & Frederick Frost
• Above the Snow Line Clinton Thomas Dent
• Three in Norway, by Two of Them J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck
• Intimate China Alicia Little
• The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin
• The Gates of India Thomas Hungerford Holdich
• West African Studies Mary Kingsley
• From Dan to Beersheba John Philip Newman
• Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel E. F. Knight
• Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia Francisco Alvares
• A Book of Discovery M. B. Synge
• The Cathedrals of Northern France M. F. Mansfield
• Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon Austen Henry Layard
• Palace and Hovel Daniel Joseph Kirwan
• The Standard Galleries: Holland Esther Singleton
• A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird
• Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara James Richardson
• Peeps at Many Lands: Siam Ernest Young
• Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo W. Cope Devereux
• A Boy’s Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles
• A New Voyage to Carolina John Lawson
• Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast Samuel Adams Drake
• The Ascent of the Matterhorn Edward Whymper
• The Story of Siena and San Gimignano Edmund G. Gardner
• The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke
• The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger Johannes Schiltberger
• A Visit to the Philippine Islands John Bowring
• Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson
• Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Robert Fortune
• Letters from Egypt Lucie Duff Gordon
• Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis William Blagdon
• The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori John William Polidori
• A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne
• Vailima Letters Robert Louis Stevenson
• Sea and Sardinia D. H. Lawrence
• The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh
• From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan H. P. Blavatsky
• Somerset G. W. Wade & J. H. Wade
• The Gardens of the Sun F. W. Burbidge
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson
• Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa Edward Hutton
• Domestic Manners of the Americans Frances Trollope
• The Cruise of the Snark Jack London
• Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea Xavier Hommaire de Hell
• Byeways in Palestine James Finn
• Inca Land Hiram Bingham
• Mystic Isles of the South Seas Frederick O’Brien
• Lands of the Slave and the Free Henry A. Murray
• Travels through France and Italy Tobias Smollett
• At Home and Abroad Margaret Fuller
• Normandy: The Scenery and Romance of Its Ancient Towns Gordon Home
• The King Country J. H. Kerry-Nicholls
• We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century W. H. Davenport Adams
• Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Rudyard Kipling
• Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Robert H. Elliot
• A Nine Months’ Residence in New Zealand Augustus Earle
• The Old World and Its Ways William Jennings Bryan
• Thirty Years in Madagascar Thomas T. Matthews
• The Pacific Triangle Sydney Greenbie
• Reminiscences of the South Seas John La Farge
• France in Eighteen Hundred and Two Henry Redhead Yorke
• Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive Franz von Löher
• The Wanderings of a Spiritualist Arthur Conan Doyle
• Greatest Wonders of the World Esther Singleton
• The Making of a Mountaineer George Ingle Finch
• Round the Horn Before the Mast Basil Lubbock
• The Gentle Art of Tramping Stephen Graham
• A Climber in New Zealand Malcolm Ross
• The Savage South Seas E. Way Elkington
• The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Bird
• Under the Southern Cross Maturin M. Ballou
• Travels in Western Australia May Vivienne
• In the Track of the Trades Lewis R. Freeman
• A Book for the Hammock W. Clark Russell
• How to See the British Museum in Four Visits Blanchard Jerrold
• Station Life in New Zealand Lady Barker
• Australian Pictures, Drawn with Pen and Pencil Howard Willoughby
• Vacation Rambles Thomas Hughes
• Atolls of the Sun Frederick O’Brien
• The Letters of Richard Ford Richard Ford
• Down Under with the Prince Everard Cotes
• A Description of Greenland Hans Egede
• Town Life in Australia Richard Twopeny
• Station Amusements in New Zealand Lady Barker
• The Story Teller of the Desert Thomas W. Knox
• How to Travel Thomas W. Knox
• Abroad and at Home Morris Phillips
• Seven Legs Across the Seas Samuel Murray
• Savage Island Basil Thomson
• South-Sea Idyls Charles Warren Stoddard
• Advance Australasia Frank T. Bullen
• Wanderings in Three Continents Richard Francis Burton
• In the Strange South Seas Beatrice Grimshaw
• On the Road with a Circus William Carter Thompson
• Cannibal-Land Martin Johnson
• A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia Ellen Clacy
• A First Year in Canterbury Settlement Samuel Butler
• Gifts of Fortune H. M. Tomlinson
• New Zealand William Pember Reeves
• The Bushman Edward Wilson Landor
• By Way of Cape Horn Paul Eve Stevenson
• Cities of the Dawn J. Ewing Ritchie
• Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt Richard Tangye
• Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis William Endicott
• At Home in Fiji Constance Gordon Cumming
• The Overland Guide-Book James Barber
• The True Travels of Captain John Smith John Smith
• Rambles in Australia Edwin Sharpe Grew and Marion Sharpe Grew
• Colonial Memories Lady Barker
• Tahiti, the Island Paradise Nicholas Senn